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Í

Latin letter I with acute accent

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJul 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ28554 ↗
Source-derived summary

Í (minuscule: í), known as I-acute, is a Latin-script character composed of the letter I and an acute accent. It is found in the Faroese, Hungarian, Icelandic, Karakalpak, Dobrujan Tatar, Czech, and Slovak languages, where it often indicates a long /i/ vowel (ee in English word feel). This form also appears in Catalan, Irish, Italian, Occitan, Portuguese, Spanish, Aragonese, Galician, Leonese, Navajo, and Vietnamese language as a variant of the letter "i". In Latin, the long i ⟨ꟾ⟩ is used instead of ⟨í⟩ for a long i-vowel.

Usage in various languages

Chinese

In Chinese pinyin, í is the yángpíng tone (阳平, high-rising tone) of “i”.

Dobrujan Tatar

Í is the 12th letter of the Dobrujan Tatar alphabet, represents the hight unrounded half-advanced ATR or soft vowel /ɨ/ as in "bír" [b̶ɨr̶] 'one'. At the end of the word it is pronounced with half open mouth undergoing dilatation "Keñiytúw" and becoming mid unrounded half-advanced ATR or soft /ə/, also known as schwa, as in "tílí" [t̶ɨl̶ə] 'his tongue'.

Faroese

Í is the 11th letter of the Faroese alphabet and represents /ʊi/.

Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Czech and Slovak

Í is the 16th letter of the Hungarian alphabet, the 12th letter of the Icelandic alphabet, the 16th letter of the Czech alphabet and the 18th letter of the Slovak alphabet. It represents /iː/.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Í” as latin letter I with acute accent. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Latin, letter and acute.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 220-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Latin, letter and acute providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28554. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Í” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.